Weird or the Weirdest

Whats wrong with a mid wife?

imex99;1067089 wrote:Whats wrong with a mid wife?

Just seems odd to me. I have an acquitance that is lining one up for when his child is born. They are doing the whole at home in the tub thing....

The tub thing is not for me but many hospitals are hiring mid wives to see low risk pregnancy patients and you really don't have a choice...

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20120123/NEWS01/201230302/Licking-Memorial-midwives-keeping-busy

Last choice should have been 1th

"Alabama moms for midwives" stickers all over the place down here in Bama. Why? Cause its not a legal birth here,Why again? Cause bath tubs are not for babies they are for methmakin',liquormakin' and partscleanin'!

BAMABUCK;1067134 wrote:"Alabama moms for midwives" stickers all over the place down here in Bama. Why? Cause its not a legal birth here,Why again? Cause bath tubs are not for babies they are for methmakin',liquormakin' and partscleanin'!

Reps for truth.

We considered using a midwife/doula but decided not to. I don't think it's all that weird.

Alabama is the worst.

fan_from_texas;1067143 wrote:We considered using a midwife/doula but decided not to. I don't think it's all that weird.

Agree. We did as well.

imex99;1067109 wrote:The tub thing is not for me but many hospitals are hiring mid wives to see low risk pregnancy patients and you really don't have a choice...

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20120123/NEWS01/201230302/Licking-Memorial-midwives-keeping-busy

Do they bounce like Stephon Marbury after the kids born or do they like hang around and you buy them gifts for Christmas etc..

And whats a doula?

Nice poll change I lol'd had to be a TS move.

I THINK you have a lower chance of infections if you have the kid at home. Might be misremembering though.

We didn't call it that, but my wife's best friend was ours. Tho she was the head nurse in the delivery room at Riverside.

gorocks99;1067169 wrote:I THINK you have a lower chance of infections if you have the kid at home. Might be misremembering though.

I believe that is correct. There certainly are lower intervention risks and fewer complications.

my mom had 5 out of her six kids at home

I don't see the big deal. If that's your thing, go for it.

As others have stated, if it is a low risk pregnancy it is no big deal. With our first, the nurse did 99% of the delivery. The OB didn't even have time to put her gown on completely and just played catcher.

A number of midwife groups have an OB in house just in case things get complicated.

Steel Valley Football;1067177 wrote:We didn't call it that, but my wife's best friend was ours. Tho she was the head nurse in the delivery room at Riverside.

Dirty knees??

Most mid wives don't deliver in homes, hope this helps.

Most work for private practices that are at hospitals or birth centers (usually right next to a hospital in case of complications, such as c-sections). It's a misnomer that all midwives deliver babies at home in tubs.

gorocks99;1067169 wrote:I THINK you have a lower chance of infections if you have the kid at home. Might be misremembering though.

low risk = lower chance of infections. Has nothing to do with having your kid at home or in a hospital. Since birth centers and mid wives don't use drugs they only accept low risk patients. Again, if there are any complications they are taken to the hospital ER.

Raw Dawgin' it;1067538 wrote:low risk = lower chance of infections. Has nothing to do with having your kid at home or in a hospital. Since birth centers and mid wives don't use drugs they only accept low risk patients. Again, if there are any complications they are taken to the hospital ER.

That's partially true, but it's tough to quantify. Most people using birthing centers, doulas, or midwives are people who are pretty serious about going the natural birth route. They tend to take more birthing classes, be in better shape, monitor signs better, etc.--all things that lead to fewer complications regardless. Basically, they're yuppies/urban hippies who are overwhelmingly young, white, well-educated, and affluent. So you're right that there's a selection bias when looking at ranges of outcomes comparing the two, and that makes it tough for a head-to-head comparison.

Still, c-section rates are dramatically lower in non-hospital or midwife-assisted births, and c-sections are a pretty big factor when it comes to infection risk. By choosing to avoid a c-section (or by taking steps to lower the risk), you can thus lower the risk of infection. If the baby is breach, of course, it doesn't matter, as a c-section is going to be done anyway.

fan_from_texas;1067585 wrote:That's partially true, but it's tough to quantify. Most people using birthing centers, doulas, or midwives are people who are pretty serious about going the natural birth route. They tend to take more birthing classes, be in better shape, monitor signs better, etc.--all things that lead to fewer complications regardless. Basically, they're yuppies/urban hippies who are overwhelmingly young, white, well-educated, and affluent. So you're right that there's a selection bias when looking at ranges of outcomes comparing the two, and that makes it tough for a head-to-head comparison.

Still, c-section rates are dramatically lower in non-hospital or midwife-assisted births, and c-sections are a pretty big factor when it comes to infection risk. By choosing to avoid a c-section (or by taking steps to lower the risk), you can thus lower the risk of infection. If the baby is breach, of course, it doesn't matter, as a c-section is going to be done anyway.

All of which means....Lower risk, so you agreed with me, you just wrote it out in two paragraphs.

Infection is one thing, but in the medical community a high risk pregnancy would be one where the mother has health problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer or kidney disease. Other "high risk" pregnancies would be where the mother is extremely young (under 17) or over the age of 35 or where the mother has had a history of multiple miscarriages or difficulties during previous pregnancies/labor and delivery.

Generally speaking if any of these risk factors at at issue you will not treat with a nurse midwife and quite possibly would have to treat with a doctor that specializes in such pregnancies.

Devils Advocate;1067518 wrote:Dirty knees??

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